Frederic Chopin Quotes
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Play Mozart in memory of me.
— Frederic Chopin
The crowd intimidates me, its breath suffocates me. I feel paralyzed by its curious look, and the unknown faces make me dumb.
— Frederic Chopin
My manuscripts sleep, while I cannot, for I am covered with poultices.
— Frederic Chopin
The earth is suffocating ... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive.
— Frederic Chopin
I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me.
— Frederic Chopin
Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man.
— Frederic Chopin
The Official Bulletin declared that the Poles should be as proud of me as the Germans are of Mozart; obvious nonsense.
— Frederic Chopin
I haven't heard anything so great for a long time; Beethoven snaps his fingers at the whole world ...
— Frederic Chopin
England is a country of pianos, they are everywhere.
— Frederic Chopin
Vienna is a handsome, lively city, and pleases me exceedingly.
— Frederic Chopin
I really don't know whether any place contains more pianists than Paris, or whether you can find more asses and virtuosos anywhere.
— Frederic Chopin
Mozart encompasses the entire domain of musical creation, but I've got only the keyboard in my poor head. — Frederic Chopin
You already know when I'm writing, so don't be surprised if it's short and dry, because I'm too hungry to write anything fat
— Frederic Chopin
Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties.
— Frederic Chopin
Even in winter it shall be green in my heart.
— Frederic Chopin
Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.
— Frederic Chopin
Chopin has done for the piano what Schubert has done for the voice.
— Frederic Chopin
Here, whatever is not boring is not English.
— Frederic Chopin
As long as I have health and strength, I will gladly work all my days.
— Frederic Chopin
Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers.
— Frederic Chopin
Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel!
— Frederic Chopin
Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in one's birthplace.
— Frederic Chopin
I shall create a new world for myself.
— Frederic Chopin
To be a great composer requires immense experience ... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's own!
— Frederic Chopin
I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, and yet I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.
— Frederic Chopin
I don't know where there can be so many pianists as in Paris, so many asses and so many virtuosi.
— Frederic Chopin
Concerts are never real music, you have to give up the idea of hearing in them all the most beautiful things of art.
— Frederic Chopin
As something has involuntarily crept into my head through my eyes,I love to indulge it, even though it may be all wrong.
— Frederic Chopin
I don't know how it is, but the Germans are amazed at me and I am amazed at them for finding anything to be amazed about.
— Frederic Chopin
Nothing is more beautiful than the sound of the guitar.
— Frederic Chopin
Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two.
— Frederic Chopin